The Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance Event will involve actors "shot" by perpetrators armed with cardboard weapons, said Matthew Short, a spokesman for the gun rights groups Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com. "It's a fake mass shooting, and we'll use fake blood," he said. He said gun noises will be blared from bullhorns. Other people will then play the role of rescuers, also armed with cardboard weapons.

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"Fake blood"?

Gun noises blared from bullhorns?

Why do I get the feeling that this is what Michael Bay did for a history project in sixth grade?

Sensibly, UT has announced that these Christmas elves would be considered to be trespassing if they tried this stunt. After all, it's not like the University of Texas is unfamiliar with impromptu exercises in Second Amendment freedoms for real. Come to think of it, why not stage this at the Texas Tower? What could possibly be the problem with that? Who could conceivably object?

"We want criminals to fear the public being armed," Short said. "An armed society is a polite society…We love freedom and we're trying to make more freedom."